Multiple drive index

There are 2 media servers. sharing 6 drives (LTO-5). in devices -> Drives tab . in all the drives rather than having a unique index of their own. all drives are displaying index as <multiple> . although tapes are mounting in all drives. I feel there is something strage. I deleted all drives from both media servers and did device configuration from GUI again and found <multiple> index in all 6 drives.

Each media server has own, unique index numbers for each drive and do not need to match.

So, it is perfectly normal for Drive_1 on MediaServer1 to have Index number of 0, and to be Index Number 1 on MediaServer2, etc.

So, if you issue 'tpconfig -l' on each media server, you can see how each drive is mapped to index number for that particular media server. This will result in <multiple> index in the GUI and is perfectly normal.

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